![]() ![]() ![]() She is bewildered to discover that the arithmetic lessons involve adding words instead of numbers using verbal arithmetic, e.g., "elf + elf = fool." The book presents an explanation for children of how these problems are solved, and then gives them several to do on their own. The first chapter introduces Sue, a new student in Mrs. He says that when he showed the students at Wayside School a regular math textbook, they laughed, thinking it was a book of jokes. Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School begins with a foreword from Sachar in character as Louis the yard teacher, explaining the "sideways" nature of the problems within. The book contains mathematical and logic puzzles for the reader to solve, presented as what The New Yorker called "absurdist math problems." The problems are interspersed with characteristically quirky stories about the students at Wayside School. Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School is a children's novel by Louis Sachar in the Wayside School series. More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School (1994)' ![]()
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